{"id":10530,"date":"2011-11-26T02:59:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T02:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=10530"},"modified":"2011-11-26T02:59:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T02:59:22","slug":"a-london-street-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/11\/26\/a-london-street-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"A London Street Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/parry-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/parry.jpg\" alt=\"parry.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A London Street Scene (1840) by John Parry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If any painting requires the attentions of the Google Art Project it&#8217;s this depiction of a bill poster going about his work by John Orlando Parry (1810\u20131879). I know this from a cropped view (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/parry-detail.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) which shows the care Parry applied to details of typography and the layering of the posters. There&#8217;s also some humour with the pickpocket boy on the left, and the artist himself as the subject of one poster in the centre of the picture. Wikipedia has a large version <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Parrywatercolour_London_Street_Scene.png\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> but it&#8217;s too washed-out and blurred to be any use. For a view of the genuine article at work, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lselibrary\/5795814747\/in\/set-72157626412575242\/\" target=\"_blank\">this LSE Library photo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A note about the painting&#8217;s date: online sources give 1830 but the copy I have in a book from the V&amp;A says 1840.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A London Street Scene (1840) by John Parry. If any painting requires the attentions of the Google Art Project it&#8217;s this depiction of a bill poster going about his work by John Orlando Parry (1810\u20131879). I know this from a cropped view (see here) which shows the care Parry applied to details of typography and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/11\/26\/a-london-street-scene\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A London Street Scene&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,44,12,10],"tags":[4854,3116],"class_list":["post-10530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-painting","category-photography","category-typography","tag-google-art-project","tag-john-orlando-parry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2JQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}